CS 654: Computer Architecture (fall '00)

Computer Science 654
(fall 2000)
MEC 214, T-Th 9:30-10:45 am

Computer Architecture

Instructor

Kevin Skadron
Office: 215 Olsson Hall
Office hours: 4:30–5:30 Mondays, or by appointment
Phone: x2-2042
skadron@cs.virginia.edu

TAs

Sagnik Bhattacharaya
Office: 228 Olsson Hall
Office hours: 3:30-5:00 Thursdays,
or by appointment

John Haskins
Office: 228 Olsson Hall
Office hours: 1:00-2:00 Mondays,
or by appointment

Announcements

Thanks everyone for a great class!

Handouts

Beginning-of-Course Memo (HTML | PDF)

D. Bhandarkar and D. W. Clark. "Performance from architecture: Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization." In Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, April 1991, pp. 310-19. (PDF)

Assignments

(Unless noted otherwise, all assignments should be turned in as hardcopy to the CS654 folder in Olsson 204)
First exercise (SimpleScalar), due Friday 9/8 at 5:00 (PDF)
Second exercise (written), due Friday 9/15 at 4:00 (PDF)
Third exercise (written), due Friday 9/22 at 4:00 (PDF)
Fourth exercise (written), due Friday, 9/29 at 4:00 (PDF)
Fifth exercise (written), due Friday, 10/6 at 4:00 (PDF)
Sixth exercise (written), due Friday, 10/20 at 4:00(PDF)
Seventh exercise (written), due Friday, 11/3 at 4:00 (PDF)
Eighth exercise (presentations + report due Friday, 11/10 at 4:00) (PDF)
Ninth exercise (written), due Wednesday, 11/22 at 4:00 (PDF)

Slides

8/31: Introduction (PDF)
9/5: History (PDF) and Design Methodology (PDF)
9/7: Measurement (PDF)
9/12: Instruction Set Design (PDF)
9/14: Guest lecture from John Haskins on Pipelining--no slides
9/19 and 9/21: Branch prediction (PDF)
9/26 and 9/28: Exceptions, Pipelining, Loop Unrolling, and Scoreboarding--no slides
10/3, 10/5, and 10/6: Remainder of Ch. 4--no slides
10/10: Q&A and manufacturing issues--no slides. (But see the June 2000 issue of Microprocessor Report for additional reading if you are interested.)
10/12: Computer arithmetic: integer addition--no slides
10/19: Integer addition, cont. and introduction to floating point--no slides
10/26: Floating point arithmetic
10/31: Return test1 and discuss
11/2: Finish computer arithmetic
11/7 and 11/9: RISC vs. CISC
11/14: Virtual memory & caches
11/16: Caches & I/O
rest of semester: multiprocessors, cache coherence, and memory consistency

Last updated: Aug. 28, 2001
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Computer Science 654 (fall 2000) MEC 214, T-Th 9:30-10:45 am